FILE - A car drives through a desert where a signboard which reads "Welcome to the Hotan Unity New Village" is seen on display in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region on Sept. 21, 2018. Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, according to a report released Wednesday, June 19, 2024 by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)